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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HAYNES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN TREMLETT AND W. H. LEE, OF SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR STEERING BOATS, 81.6.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,499, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed May 18, 1885.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HAYNES, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Steering Boats, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section taken on line 1 1, Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3is a vertical section taken on line 3 3, Fig. 1.

My invention relates to a device for steering boats, vessels, 850., and for dislodging the same when stranded.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described,and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, part-of a boat or vessel having openings 13 at its stern, communicating with a cylinder or tube, 0, in which are two water-wheels, D, 011 a shaft, I, provided with cranks J, at right angles to each other, and journaled in boxes I, supported on bars or plates 1 secured to the cylinder or tube, or by other suitable means. Connected to the cranks J are pitmen L, that extend up through an opening, 0, in the cylinder, and are connected at their upper ends to cranks M of a shaft, M, journaled in boxes M on standards or frames N of engines N. The cranks M are located within a box, 0 secured to the cylinder 0, over The box is made in two parts, bolted together at Of, (see Fig. 3,) and it is provided with stuffing-boxes 0, through which the shaft M extends. These boxes prevent the leakage of water from the box and cylinder.

The outer ends of the shaft have cranks P, provided with wrist-pins P, that fit in holes in the lower ends of links P connected to cross-heads P on piston-rods N 2 of the engines. The heads are guided by strips P, secured to the frames N. The pistons of the rods N work in cylinders N of the engines, provided with chests N the valve-stems N of which are connected to a slotted bar, N supported on the upper ends or rods, N provided at their lower ends with rings N surrounding eccentrics N 9 on the shaft M. The bar or link N is shifted 0n the valve-stem by. a lever, N, to which it is connected by links N, and the lever has a pawl, N engaging a A represents the opening 0.

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rack, N, by which the link is held to any adjustment. I thus make use of the common well-known means for reversing the engine, and by reversing the engine the wheels D are made to turn in either direction, so as to steer the boat in either direction, or to move it in either direction when stranded. The lever N is on a rock shaft, N to which the links N are also connected.

T represents valves or gates, fitting, when open, in housings T, and, when closed, in seats by T at the ends of the cylinder. They are raised and lowered by screws T to open and close the ends of the cylinder at will.

In case of repairs being needed in the cylinder the valves are closed, the water removed from the cylinder by a siphon-pipe, V, or otherwise, and the top of the box 0 removed.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to form a tubular or other shaped opening through a vessel from side to side and place therein a propeller wheel or wheels, whereby the vessel may be moved to one side or the other, according to the direction in which the said propellers rotate, and that such openings have been provided with valves for closing them when the propellers therein contained are inactive.

I am also aware that it is not broadly new to place a driving-shait having a plurality of cranks projecting therefrom at angles to each other, parallel to a driven shaft having similar cranks, the cranks of the two shafts being connected by suitable pitmen, for the purpose of avoiding dead-centers.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with a vessel, of a transverse passage extending from side to side thereof, valves for closing said passage, an opening in the top thereof, a box having a removable top covering said opening, a crankshaft journaled in the passage and having the propellingblades secured thereto, a second crankshaft parallel thereto, passing through stuffing-boxes in the box before mentioned, pitnien connecting the cranks of the two shafts and the engine, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the pu'r' poses set forth.

. hi. WILLIAM HAYNES.

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